Fear of going mad?

celeron · Post by **celeron** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:22 am

I've just started the online program so am kinda new to this whole anxiety thing. My biggest fear is fear of going mad, I fear I will eventually just flip out or that this anxiety will lead to a more serious mental problem, or perhaps they misdiagnosed anxiety.

You get the idea, are these normals fears for people with anxiety?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:38 am

This is a common fear of people with anxiety. People who go mad do not know they are going to do it. It is something we worry about, especially with all the scary thoughts we have. The program really helps, i have finished my 15 wks and have changed a lot in that time. I do still have anxiety ... i am going over the tapes and still working daily to get past this for good. It doesn't happen overnite ( even though i wish it did) looking back all of the symptoms came gradually and then bamm it all hit me at once,so i am hoping that with the symptoms slowly going away , bamm i will wake up one day and feel recovered.

Good luck, stick with it and you will be fine

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:10 am

Oh I've thought I was going mad several times in my life. Never really did and am still here and functioning to prove it. When I left my long term employment some of my co workers said I was like no one they had ever met before. At first I thought - "Oh I must have seemed crazy to them." but then put another spin on it-"Maybe I'm special."

BookOfPsalms · Post by **BookOfPsalms** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:10 am

That feeling is very common wit us. My psychologist did tell me that a person that really is going mad NEVER thinks they are - so that did give me a tool to deal with those thoughts anyway. I am excited about this program and believe with all the success stories I have heard, I do not see any reason I can't expect the same for myself IF I do the work. Believe me, with all the terror I have lived through, I AM ready to do whatever it takes to get better. I wish you the very best with your program and really look forward to hearing your success story too! Nanc

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:43 am

I have had this fear for years, heard it ran in the fam. a while back..like generations. No specific info on that though.
I think it't possible for a person to go mad & know it's happening. & it's scary!! Those that are strong minded survive to learn how to survive surviving. Everyone of us are on our own voyage. It's positive affirmation towards everything that will make us successful. Negative thoughts are poision to the slowly slipping.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:51 am

Interestingly we have a tramp in our village, he was a very very intelligent man but he went totally mad, no one really knows what happened but he did have anxiety and turned to alcohol and just lost his mind, this is what makes me worried, I don't drink mind you

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:54 pm

hi celeron what makes you think that his anxiety wasn't brought on by his schizophrenia???????

you have to stop assuming that anxiety leads to madness because someone you know that had anxiety went mad. that's like saying all cars that crashed has gasoline in their tank, therefore gasoline causes cars to crash.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:35 pm

I'd wager most people with anxiety have at least once been afraid they were going mad. I know I have.

I don't know a whole lot of statistics, but I'm pretty sure people who fear going mad usually don't. Could be wrong, could be right. Just remember Lucinda. She feared that she was going to go crazy for YEARS! I don't know about you, but she seems fine to me. lol

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:03 pm

I live with the 'I must be crazy fear' about 90% of my day. This has been going on for about a year now. I fear the word schizophrenia, and yet i obcess about it continually. I often wonder if what i have is anxiety or a pre-cursor to something much worse. I sit and wait to hear voices, I never do, but I am waiting to. I am waiting for the hallucinations to start. But they necer do. I want to look at the symptoms of schizophrenia, but I'm to scared!! I would sleep better at night if i knew for sure. So yes what you are feeling is real, perhaps more real then we think.